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Thales
5 quotes
“Water is the first principle of everything.”
Thales (625–546 BC) said by 546 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.”
Thales (625–546 BC) said by 546 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 234
“Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.”
Thales (625–546 BC) said by 546 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: W. W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (1893, 1925)
“Do not ask who started it. Finish it”
Thales (625–546 BC) said by 546 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 234
“Nothing is more ancient than God, for He was never created; nothing more beautiful than the world, it is the work of that same God; nothing is more active than thought, for it flies over the whole universe; nothing is stronger than necessity, for all must submit to it.”
Thales (625–546 BC) said by 546 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Love and Live Or Kill and Die: Realities of the Destruction of Human Life (2009) by James H. Wilson, p. 72